Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'E'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).
In the sentence below, find the part that contains an error. If the sentence is correct as it stands, choose "No error".
Answer: B
The error is in firm affixed.
Affixed is a participle and needs an adverb: firmly affixed. Firm is the adjective.
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In the sentence below, find the part that contains an error. If the sentence is correct as it stands, choose "No error".
Answer: C
The error is in order for settling.
In order takes an infinitive: in order to settle the dispute. In order for is used only before a subject and an infinitive.
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In the sentence below, find the part that contains an error. If the sentence is correct as it stands, choose "No error".
Answer: B
The error is in whom he thought.
The pronoun is the subject of would be able, not the object of thought, so the subject form is needed: who he thought would be able to get the first prize. He thought is parenthetical.
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In the sentence below, find the part that contains an error. If the sentence is correct as it stands, choose "No error".
Answer: B
The error is in all the problems of the future.
Gandhi could not solve problems belonging to a time after his own; the sense is that he did not solve them for the future. The preposition should be for, which the contrast with problems of his own age makes clear.
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In the sentence below, find the part that contains an error. If the sentence is correct as it stands, choose "No error".
Answer: C
The error is in oldest than the other.
A comparison between two takes the comparative: older than the other players. And of a person's age within a group, elder is used only attributively.
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In the sentence below, find the part that contains an error. If the sentence is correct as it stands, choose "No error".
Answer: B
The error is in members were dismissed.
The subject is one, which is singular: one of the party members was dismissed.
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In the sentence below, find the part that contains an error. If the sentence is correct as it stands, choose "No error".
Answer: A
The error is in no sooner the plane landed.
No sooner requires inversion and the past perfect: no sooner had the plane landed at the airport than.
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In the sentence below, find the part that contains an error. If the sentence is correct as it stands, choose "No error".
Answer: B
The error is in if I would have realised.
Would never appears in the if-clause. A third conditional takes the past perfect there: if I had realised.
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In the sentence below, find the part that contains an error. If the sentence is correct as it stands, choose "No error".
Answer: A
There is no error.
The present perfect suits an action completed with present effect, the passive could be done is correctly formed, and which is now coming on is a proper relative clause.
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In the sentence below, find the part that contains an error. If the sentence is correct as it stands, choose "No error".
Answer: A
The error is in well, I spend six or seven years.
The sentence is about the past, so the verb must be past: I spent six or seven years. And a job for myself is the reflexive the last part needs.
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